As the U.S. Election Day comes closer, hopeful politicians are doing their best to reach the public. But all of these things won't matter anymore once election day starts since each voter already has an idea of whom they want to vote for. To help make sure that every single vote gets counted, Boost Mobile, together with 180LA, have partnered together to make this happen.

The initiative stems from a 2014 report made by the Brennan Center for Justice. According to the report, minority communities were unable to vote because there wasn't enough voting resources and locations. Because of these, they had to wait longer periods of time before they could cast their ballots. With this in mind, Boost Mobile and 180LA have decided to convert Boost Mobile retail locations as a temporary polling place on Election Day. This is the first time that a brand has offered its physical retail branches to become a polling station. Apart from making it more convenient and easier to vote, Boost has volunteered its own employees to man the voting locations on Nov. 8.

As a way of letting the public know about this, Boost has debuted a short documentary, entitled "Boost Your Voice--Equal Access for All." The film depicts common struggles that people from minority and low-income neighborhoods face whenever they go out to vote. The idea has also been implemented in select Boost Mobile stores such as in Southern California counties like Riverside, San Diego and Orange County; and Chicago's Cook County.

These are just a few of the communities Boost hopes to tap before Election Day. As a whole, they have already extended its offer to 817 county election boards throughout the United States. Additionally, they have started a change.org petition so they could gather support for this initiative.

Way to go Boost! BUT they should just dissolve. Sprint Prepaid & Virgin into "The New Boost" Sure a huge overall would cost a lot of money. But streamlining is what Sprint needs badly. *secondly, all sprint prepaid & virgin phones would then be eligible for Boost activation

Boost IS focusing on their business. What do you think the Boost employees will be doing while the voters wait for one of maybe two booths to open up? Marketing the crap out of them of course. Businesses think of ways to bring people into the stores and this is just another way to get them into and in front of a salesperson. I'm not a fan of Boost but for a former small business owner I see the smarts in this approach.

I will never use Boost again. Sprint is owned by a Japanese company which apparently wants to influence the election. Urban areas have too many polling locations. It is suburban and rural areas that need more polls.

Maybe where you live but in my state rural polling stations have 10 to 30 times less registered voters per station than the most densely populated voting districts. No early voting / voting online or mail in ballot (other than absentee) either.

I think a dozen states are voting already, last presidential election 30% of the votes were cast in early voting, expected to be more this time.

Doesn't CA have early voting? IL? May be the better & more economically sensible solution vs. expanding polling places on one day election day.

California has early voting and vote by mail. I've voted by mail for many years. For early voting I would have to go to City Hall which isn't very convenient (limited, expensive parking) for me and most others.